Acting
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s.
Montreux Jazz Festival, 1983
"Lester Bowie : trumpet - Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman : reeds - Malachi Favors : bass - Famoudou Don Moye : percussion + Fontella Bowie : vocals "Festival de Chateauvallon 1970"
Anna Deveare Smith plays over 30 characters in a re-creation of the racial conflict that erupted in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
1984 performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Cecil Taylor
CĂ©line is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.
Inside Out In The Open is an hour-long documentary about a form of jazz, popularly known as free jazz. The film is an exploration of that music through the voices and performances of over twenty such musicians, from those who were its first generation to younger musicians joining the tradition.
